Will Benson have a phone-free school?

Current phone policy at Benson schools isn’t fully working due partially to inconsistent enforcement of it from class to class...Some may put a fake phone in the pouch where they don’t access to it while having their real phone in their pocket, Kent said...Stillwater schools are planning to go phone free where they won’t allow them in the building or they have been locked in a locker, Kent said. If the phone is seen in the school, the phone is turned into the office, and a parent has to pick it up...Phone free policies are starting to be more popular with schools, she told the school board. School counselor Mallory Felt brought the idea of going phone free to the administration last week, which started the discussions about a new policy...When the school district first implemented its current phone policy, there were a lot more positive comments about it from students and then negative ones, School Board Member Jim Berens said.
 

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